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3,123,594 AZGPHTl-IALOCYANINE DYESTUFFS CONTAIN- ]iNG A TRIAZINE RADHCAL Eugen Johann Koiicr and Raymond Gunst, Binningen,

Switzerland, assignors to Ciba Corporation, a corporation of Delaware No Drawing. Filed July 14, 196%, Ser. No. 42,762

' Claims priority, application Switzerland July 16, 1959 Ciaims. (Cl. 260146) This invention provides new, valuable dyestuffs of the formula in which R indicates the radical of an azo group-free diazo component, preferably the radical of a benzene or naphthalene sulfonic acid, n is a positive whole number which is at most 2 and X is the radical of a halogenated 1,3,5-triazine attached by Way of an amino bridge, especially an -NH-bridge, of the formula LIalogen in which Z is the radical of a phthalocyanine sulfonamide containing sulfonic acid groups and attached by means of an NH-group. The invention is concerned more especially with such monoazodyestuifs as contain a 2-chloro-4- amino-1,3,5-triazine radical of the formula in which X indicates an alkylene or arylene radical, A is a hydroxyl or amino group, m a whole number which is at most 2 and F a copper phthalocyanine radical.

For the manufacture of the dyestuffs of the invention, a trihalogenl,3,5-triazine, more especially the 2,4,6-trichloro-1,3,5-triazine, may be condensed on the one hand with an amino-monoazo deystuff of the formula in which R and n have the same significance as in Formula 1, and q is a positive whole number which is at most 3, and on the other hand with a phthalocyanine sultonamide United States Patent 0 e 3,123,594 Patented Mar. 3, 1964 compounds, for example amino-benzene and their sulfonic acids, amino-naphthalene sulfonic acid, amino-pyrene or -chrysene sulfonic acids or arninonaphthol sulfonic acids, or complicated diazotized compounds, which however should contain no azo groups.

As examples of amines of which the diazo compound is applicable for coupling with the specified coupling components containing acylatable amino groups, the following may,'for example, be mentioned:

l-aminobenzene-2-, -3- or -4-sulfonic acid, 1-aminoben zene-2- -3- or -4-carboxylic acid, 2-amino-1-methoxybenzene-4-sulfonic acid, 1-amino-4-methoxybenzene-2-sulfonic acid, 3-amino-2-hydroxybenzoic acid-S-sulfonic acid,

3-amino-6-hydroxybenzoic-5-su1fonie acid,

2-methoxy or 2-methyl-1-aminobenzene-4-sulfonic acid, S-acylarnino-Z-aminobenzene-l-sulfonic acid, 4-acetylamino-Z-aminobenzene-l-sulfonic acid, 4-acetylamino-Z-methyl-S-methoxy-l-aminobenzene, S-acetylaminoor S-benzoylamino-2-aminobenzene-l-carbo xylic acid, S-amino-Z-nitrobenzoic acid,

2.4-dirnethyl-l-aminobenzene-G-sulfonic acid,

2-methyl-4-chloro-1-aminobenzene-6-sulfonic acid, Z-aminobenzoic acid-4- or -5-sulfonic acid,

1-aminonaphthalene-4-, -5-, -6- or -7-sulfonic acid, 2-aminonaphthalene-4-, -6-, -7- or -8-sulfonic acid,

l-aminonaphthalene-3,6-disulfonic acid,

l-arninobenzene-2,5-disulfonic acid, 2-aminonaphthalene-4,8-, 5,7- or 6,8-disulfonic acid, l-(3- or 4'-aminobenzoyl)-aminobenzene-3-sulfonic acid, 3-aminopyrene-8- or -l 0-monosulfonic acid, 3-aminopyrene-5,8- or 5,10-disulfonic acid, 4-nitro-4'-aminostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid and O-acylderivatives of aminonaphthol sulfonic acid, e.g., the

O-acylderivatives of 1-amino-8-hydroxynaphthalene- 3,6- or 4,6-disulfonic acid or dehydrothiotoluidinemonoor disulfonic acid.

The coupling of the diazo compounds, obtained, for example, by means of mineral acid, especially hydro chloric acid, and sodium nitrite, with the specified aminonaphthalene sulfonic acids, takes place by methods known per se. I

The condensation of the'resulting aminomonoazo dyestuffs with cyanuric chloride is to be carried out in such a manner that in the resulting'condensationproduct two .replaceablehalogen atoms still'remain, of which one is replaced by the present process by the radical of an aminophthalocyanine sulfonamide containing sulfonic acid groups. Such phthalocyanines are used as contain an acylatable amino group in an external nucleus, i.e., in a nucleus which is attached to the phthalocyanine nucleus by means of a sulfonic acid amide or sulfonic acid aryl ester group.

Instead of being attached in an external nucleus, the acylatable group can be attached by an alkylene chain which is connected to the phthalocyanine molecule by means of an 4O NH-group. Both metal-free and metalliferous phthalocyanine dyestulis of this type are concerned. With advantage there may be used the complex heavy metal compounds of the phthalocyanines containing sulfonic acid groups, for example the iron compounds but more especially the phthalocyanines containing sulfonic acid groups which contain cobalt, nickel, copper or zinc, i.e., one of the heavy metals of atomic numbers 27 to 30, in complex combination. Especially good results are provided in this case by the copper phthalocyanines which contain sulfonic acid groups or are sulfonated. According to the selected method of production, the sulfonic acid groups in the phthalocyanine molecule are in 4- or 3-position, which depends on whether there is used as starting material for their production the 4-sulfo-pl1thalic acid or whether they are produced by sulfonation or by direct sulfochlorination of the phthalocyanine.

Such phthalocyanine dyestuffs as serve as starting materials in the present process may be produced, for example, by condensation of phthalocyanine sulfonic acid halides (obtainable, for example, by treatment of metalfree or metalliferous phthalocyanines with 'chlorsulfonic acid or from the phthalocyanine di-to-tetra-sulfonic acids, by reaction with acid halogenating agents such as phosphorus halides, ,thionyl chloride or chlorsulfonic acid) with organic compounds containing an acylatable hydroxyl or amino group, which contain together with this acylatable group a further acylatable amino group or a substituent convertible thereinto after the reaction with the phthalocyanine sulfonic acid halide. As such organic compounds are therefore concerned bifunctional organic compounds, such as hydroxyamine or diamines, for example cyclic, more especially aromatic, diamines, such as 4,4 diaminodiphenyl 4,4 diaminostilbene 2,2 disulfonic acid, 1,4- or 1,3-diaminobenzene and primarily 1,4-diamino-benzene-2-sulfonic acid and 1,3-diaminobenzene-4-sulfonic acid. N-itranilines or monoacyl derivatives of organic diamines may also be used and, after the reaction with the phthalocyanine sulfonic acid chloride employed, a new NI-l -group liberated by reduction or hydrolysis. In the selection of the starting materials, care must be taken that in the product produced, together with at least one acylatable amino group, preferably at least two sulfonic acid groups are present. For this reason there are used as starting materials, for example, phthalocyanine dyestuffs containing at least two sulfonic acid halide groups, and these are treated with hydroxyamines or diamines containing sulfonic acid groups. If-hydroxyamines or diamines containing no sulfonic acid groups are used, these must be reacted with at most one sulfonic acid halide group of a phthalocyanine sulfonic acid halide containing at least three such groups. Thus, for example, there are obtained from one mol of a phthalocyanine tetra-sulfonic acid chloride and one to at most two mol of one of the mentioned hydroxyamines or diamines containing no sulfonic acid groups or with their monoacyl derivatives, very valuable phthalocyanine dyestuffs serving as starting materials for the present process, which after hydrolysis or partial amidation and hydrolysis of the non-reacted sulfonic acid chloride groups, contain So H-groups and at least one acylatable amino group, whereas with the use of hydroxyarnines containing sulfonic acid groups, such as 1-amino-3-hydroxybenzene-6- sulfonic acid, or diamines containing sulfonic acid groups, such as 1,3-diarninobenzene-4-sulfonic acid, 1,4- diaminobenzene-Z-sulfonic acid, diamino-monoazo dyestulfs containing sulfonic acid groups, or their monoacyl derivatives, if desired more than two of the sulfonic acid chloride groups present in the starting phthalocyanine may react.

Such phthalocyanine dyestulfs containing acylatable amino groups are, according to the invention, so condensed on the amino group with the dichlorotriazine monoazo dyestuffs obtainable from cyanuric chloride and the initially mentioned amino-monoazo dyestuffs, that halogen-containing triazine condensation products are produced which contain one monoazo dyestutf radical of the specified type and one phthalocyanine dyestufi radical attached to the triazine nucleus.

The condensation according to the invention of these amino compounds with dihalogen-triazine dyestuffs, is carried out advantageously with the use of acid-binding agents, such as sodium carbonate or sodium hydroxide, and under such conditions that in the product produced one replaceable halogen atom still remains, i.e., for example in organic solvents or at relatively low temperatures in an aqueous medium.

The azophthalocyanine dyestuffs containing triazine, of the present invention, can accordingly be produced either by condensation of the phthalocyanine dyestuff with trihalogen-triazines and condensation of the amino-monoazo dyestufr' with the resulting phthalocyanine dichlorotriazine condensate or, conversely, by condensing the aminomonoazo dyestufi first with trihalogen-triazines and reacting the phthalocyanine dyestulf in the last stage. This latter method of production in general gives the most valuable products.

The dyestuffs of this invention may be isolated and worked up to useful, dry dye preparations. Isolation in this case takes place preferably at low temperatures by salting out and filtration or by spray drying. The filtered dyestulfs can be dried, if desired after the addition of color stretching agents and butler substances, such as mixtures of equal parts of monoand di-sodium phosphate. Preferably the drying is carried out at not too high temperatures and under reduced pressure.

The new dyestuffs of this invention are suitable for the dyeing and printing of a wide variety of materials such as wool, silk, leather and superpolyamides, but more especially cellulosic materials of fibrous structure, such as linen, regenerated cellulose and more especially cotton. They are suitable for dyeing by the so called pad dyeing process, but quite particularly, however, for dyeing by the print dyeing process, according to which the dyestuffs applied to the goods to be dyed are fixed in the hot and in the presence of acid-binding agents. This process and the direct dyeing method, which is also applicable in the case of many of the dyestuffs obtained by the present process, give valuable dyeings and prints which are fixed fast to washing.

The dyeings and printings obtainable with the new dyestuif preparations on cellulosic fibers are distinguished as a rule by purity, good fastness to light and primarily by outstanding fastness to wet processing, especially a very good fastness to washing.

The following examples illustrate the invention, the parts and percentages being by weight unless otherwise stated and the relation between part by weight and part by volume being the same as that between the gram and cubic centimeter.

EXAMPLE 1 A quantity corresponding to 9.66 parts of sodium nitrite, of a mixture consisting of the mono and the diamides of copper phthalocyanine-3,3',3",3-tetrasulfonic acid, which correspond to the formulae and - -s omNGs 0311 which mixture is obtainable from copper phthalocyanine- 3,3',3",3"'-tetrasulfochloride by condensation with 1,3- diaminobenzene-4-sulfonic acid and hydrolysis of the unreacted sulfochloride groups, is dissolved in 750 parts of water and brought to a pH value of 7.0. To this dyestuff solution are added 1500 parts of a neutral, aqueous solution containing 96 parts of the dyestutf of the formula SOaH $0311 The well stirred reaction mixture is treated with 14 parts of sodium bicarbonate and the whole heated for hours to C. For isolation of the dyestuff, the reaction mixture is evaporated to dryness under vacuum at 60-70 C. The resulting product gives on cotton green shades fixed fast to Washing.

By using the copper phthalocyanine-3-[B-aminoethyl} sulfonamide disulfonic acid of the formula and condensing With the corresponding quantity of the above described dichlorotriazine dyestuif, a dyestulf of similar shade is obtained.

obtainable from copper phthalocyanine-3,3,3",3"'-tetrasulfonic acid chloride by condensation with monoacetylm-phenylenediamine in the presence of ammonia with subsequent hydrolysis of the acetyl group, are dissolved in 1000 parts of water at a pH value of 7-7.5. To the resulting dyestutf solution are added at 10-15 C. 1000 parts by volume of an aqueous neutral solution containing 68.5 parts of the dyestuff of the formula The temperature of the well stirred reaction mixture is brought slowly to 30-40 C. The hydrochloric acid liberated in the condensation is neutralized by the dropwise addition of suflicient 2 N-sodium hydroxide solution so that the pH value is always maintained between 6.5 and 7.5. As soon as the condensation is complete, the dyestufl is precipitated with potassium chloride, isolated by filtration and dried under vacuum. It dyes cellulosic fiber in fast green shades.

EXAMPLE 3 94 parts of copper phthalocyanine-B-sulfonic acid-N- [B-aminoethyl]-amide-3,3",3"'-trisulfonic acid of the formula S OzNH-C Hz-C H2=NHZ CuPhC-3- I S 0 3H] l L a which is obtained from copper phthalocyanine-3,33,3"-

tetrasulfonic acid chloride by condensation with monoacetylethylenediamine and subsequent hydrolysis of the W acetyl group, are dissolved in 1000 parts of water at a pH The dichlorotriazine dyestutf employed can be prepared,

for example, as follows:

30.7 parts of 2-aminonaphthalene-4,8-disulfonic acid are stirred with parts of ice and an aqueous solution of '6.9 parts of sodium nitrite and 25 parts by volume of hydrochloric acid is added. As soon as the diazotization is complete, the reaction medium is treated with a solution, brought to pH 7, of 22.3 parts of l-aminonaphthalene-6-sulfonic acid in 400 parts of water. coupling is complete, the reaction mixture is brought to When the pH 7 and at 0 C. 18.6 parts of cyanuric chloride in a fine state of division are added to the reaction mixture. The condensation advantageously takes place at a pH value of 8-6 and a temperature of 5-10 C.

EXAMPLE 2 g 98.5 parts of the copper phthalocyanine'dyestuif of formula NH, -SOzNH- OuPhC-it SOzNH value of 7-7.5. To the resulting dyestuif solution are added at 10 C. 1200 parts of an aqueous, neutral solution containing 68.5 parts of the dyestutf of the formula 31 so 11 f i 3 01-0 o-NH N=N l sour SOsH The temperature of the Well stirred reaction mixture is brought slowly to 30-40 C., while at the same time the pH value is maintained at 7-7.8 by slow addition of dilute sodium hydroxide solution.

For isolation of the dyestuff, the solution is evaporated under vacuum to dryness. The resulting product gives on cotton by the print dyeing method green shades fixed fast to washing.

EXAMPLES 4-21 Monoazodyestufis II 17 l-Arninobenzene-Z,fi-disulfonic do acid.

S O NH Cu PhO-S- :11): 18 do 1-Aminonaphthalene-7-sulfonic NH:

acid. I

ouPho-s- 19 2-Arninonaphthalene-4,8- 1-Aminonaphthalene-8-sulfonic disulfonic acid. acid. I -SO2NH NH2 CuBhC-ZS: -(SO;NH

20 1-Aminobenzene-3-sulfonic acid 1.-Aminonaphthalene-fi-sulionie acid: S 02NH NH;

CuPhC-B- (SO NH2) 21 do. 1-Aminonaphthalene-Z-sulfonic acid. S OgNH NH CuPhC-3- (SONH EXAMPLE 22 106.6 parts of copper phthalocyanine-3-sulfonic acid- N-[m-amino-n-sulfophenyl]-amide 3',3,3" trisulfonic acid are dissolved in 500 parts of water with the addition,

of dilute sodium hydroxide solution and the resulting solution is brought to a pH value of 7-7.5. The whole is cooled to 05 C. and treated with a solution in acetone of cyanuric chloride which is obtained-by dissolving- 1'8.6- parts of cyanuric chloride in 100 parts by volume of acetone. By cooling, the temperature is maintained at 510 C. and by addition of dilute sodium hydroxide solution the pH value of the reaction mixture is permanently maintained between 6 and 7.5. When the condensation is complete, 500 parts of an aqueous, neutral solution are added which contains 40.7 parts of the dyestuff of the, formula.

SOsH

s osH parts of sodium bicarbonate and heated for hours to -34 C. For isolation of the resulting dyestutf, the reaction mixture is evaporated to drynessunden vacuum at C Dye Method A 2 parts of dyestuft are dissolved in 100 parts of water. A cotton fabric is impregnated on the foulard with this solution and the excess liquid is squeezed off to such an extent that the material retains 75% of its weight of dyestufr' solution. The goods thus impregnated are dried and then impregnated at room temperature in a solution containing per liter 10 grams of sodium hydroxide and 300 grams of sodium chloride, the material squeezed out to a liquid absorption of 75% and then steamed for 60 hours at 100-101 C. The material is then rinsed, soaped for a quarter of an hour in a 0.3% solution of a nonionic washing agent at boiling temperature, rinsed and dried- Dye Method B 3 parts of dyestuff and 2 parts of sodium carbonate are dissolved in 75 parts of water with 25 parts of urea. A cotton fabric is impregnated with this solution, squeezed out to an increase in weight of 75% and dried.

The material is then subjected to dry heat at. 140? C. for 5 minutes, rinsed and soaped at boiling temperature. A green diyeing, fixed fast to washing: is obtained.

Printing Method 30 parts of dyestufi are dissolved in 339 parts of water with; 2.00 parts: of urea: and; the solution poured. into: 400

parts of am about 5%. sodium alginate: thickening and.

treated with 30 parts of potassium. carbonate and: 1 part of sodium hydroxide of 36 B. A cotton fabric is printed in the customary manner with the resulting printing color and dried. The material is then steamed for 8, minutes at 100-101 C., rinsed, soaped; rinsed again and dried.

Exhaust Process 5. parts of a: monochlorotriazine dyestutf obtained according to Example 9 are dissolved in, 400 parts of water with parts of trisodium phosphate and, the whole made up with Water to 4000 parts. After the addition of 80 parts of sodium chloride, parts of a cotton fabric are entered; into this dye bath, the temperature raised within /2, hour to 60 C., afurther 80 parts of sodium chloride added, the temperature raised within a quarter of an hour to 80 C. and the whole maintained for /2 hour at this temperature. The resulting green dyeing is then rinsed and soaped for 15- minutes in a boiling 0.3% solution of a non-ionic washing agent.

What is claimed is:

wherein R is a radical selected from the group consisting of the radicals of benzene monosulfonic acid, benzene disulfonic acid, naphthalene monosulfonic acid, naphthalene disulfonic acid and naphthalene trisulfonic acid, m is a whole number up to 2, Y is a member selected from the 1 l 1 2 group consisting of lower alkylene, the phenylene and the wherein Q is the copper phthalocyanine radical bearing snlfophenylene radicals, W is a member of the group conthe sO -groups in the 3, 3, 3" and 3 positions. sisting of the hydroXy and amino groups, and Q is the 4. The dyestuff of the formula S'OaH (I31 NN i f I NH-O o-NII-cHzoH-Nrr soro sohon) 3 I N SOsH HOaS copper phthalocyanine radical bearing the 4O -groupwherein Q is the copper phthalocyanine radical bearing ings each in one of the 3, 3', 3", 3", 4, 4, 4", and 4" the SO -groups in the 3, 3', 3" and 3" positions.

positions. 5. The dyestulf of the formula siosn NH-(fl) \C|}-NH I N N 80311 Soy-NH I ('31 1 IHs02-Q s02on SOaH 1 2. The dyestufl of the formula I wherein Q is the copper phthalocyanine radical bearing wherein Q is the copper phthalocyanine radical bearing the SO -groups in the 3, 3', 3" and 3 positions. the sO -groups in the 3, 3', 3" and 3" positions.

3. The dyestuff of the formula V SOaH ('31 C N=N i l NH-O\ /C-NH N SOaH 1103s NH-SO2Q- SO2OH References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,951,837 Andrew et al Sept. 6, 1960 OTHER REFERENCES CIBA (South Africa), 2630, 1957 (67 pages, pages 1-8, 4748 and 55-56 relied on),

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE QERTlFICATE @F CORREQTION Patent No 3 l2S 59 l March 3 1964 Eugen Johann Keller et ale that e'ri'or appears in the above numbered pat It is hereby certified V d that the Said Letters Patent should read as ent requiring correction an corrected below,

Column l line 53; f0! 'deyf stufP reed dyeetiuff fi g column 5 lines 67 to "(5 for that portion of the formula. reading:

column 6 lines 33 to 38 for that portion of the formula reading:

SO2NHCH2-CH2=NH2 read -SO NH-CH CH -NH columns "Z and 8., in the tahle item 8 under '11 for "CuFn G 3-' read CuPhC--3-= --D Signed and sealed this 10th day of November 1964 (SEAL) Attest:

EDWARD J, BRENNER Commissioner of Patents W0 SWIDER Attesting Officer 

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